Incorporating Bicycles into Urban Mobility: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development

Escolano, Carlos; Campos, Alfredo; Pardos, Sergio Valdivielso; Nedeliakova, Eva; Stefancova, Vladimira

doi:10.26552/com.c.2017.2.68-73

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“…First, both cities used a combination of hard infrastructure and soft policy and promotional measures. This is similar to other cities that successfully promoted bicycling using a mix of measures [34][35][36]. In terms of infrastructure, both cities expanded and improved the quality of bike parking, installed bike lanes, and more recently protected bike lanes and traffic-calmed neighborhood streets where cyclists can share the roadway with low levels and slow-moving motorized vehicles.…”

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“…Cycling levels in both cities are much lower than in European cities with a history of planning for bicycles such as Copenhagen (29%) or Amsterdam (36%). These cities have implemented bicycle-friendly measures for a longer period of time and to a much greater extent than Frankfurt or Washington, DC [1, [32][33][34]. In some ways, the increase in cycling in Frankfurt and Washington, DC is comparable to the success of bicycle promotion in Seville, Spain, another city without a history of bicycling [35].…”

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Promoting Bicycling in Car-Oriented Cities: Lessons from Washington, DC and Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

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This paper compares bicycling in Washington, DC and Frankfurt am Main, Germany, two car-oriented cities that had adapted their urban transport system to car travel during the 20th century. Our comparative case study shows that both cities have been successful in increasing the percentage of trips made by bicycle between the late 1990s and 2018: Washington, DC from 1% to 5% and Frankfurt from 6% to 20% of trips. Both cities had detailed bike plans and specific mode share goals for bicycling. However, those plans were only used as guideposts for a step-by-step approach to bicycle promotion that focused on integrating bicycling into everyday decision making in transport, traffic engineering, and urban development. This step-by-step approach successfully garnered political, public, and administrative support over time. The downside of this incrementalist approach is that bike route networks in both cities still have many gaps because bikeway infrastructure was built when individual opportunities arose and not as part of an integrated network. Bicycle promotion in both cities used a combination of bikeway infrastructure and soft policy, including marketing measures. In both cities, the quality of newly installed bikeway infrastructure increased over time from simple bike lanes to protected bike lanes separating cyclists from traffic. In contrast to Washington, DC, Frankfurt has a longer history of car-restrictive policies and overall has been more strict in limiting car use.

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Promoting Bicycling in Car-Oriented Cities: Lessons from Washington, DC and Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

2021

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“…• La potenciación de los modelos de movilidad urbana sostenible mediante la expansión de una red de carril-bici, de un servicio de bicicleta pública o de un tranvía-metro ligero (López-Escolano et al, 2017;López-Escolano & Pueyo, 2019).…”

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2021

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Este trabajo analiza la Estrategia Zaragoza +20, marco de planificación estratégica que contiene las directrices para la intervención en la ciudad de Zaragoza (España) y su entorno metropolitano en los próximos años. En el contexto de la Planificación Estratégica Urbana, se describen los antecedentes y se revisa críticamente la metodología y enfoques empleados para la formulación del plan. La Estrategia se alinea con las principales agendas urbanas nacionales e internacionales, lo que supone uno de los primeros ejemplos en la planificación de las ciudades españolas.

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Urban transportation sustainability assessments: a systematic review of literature

Karjalainen

Juhola

2021

Transport Reviews

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The volume of urban transportation sustainability assessments in academic literature has steadily increased over the last two decades. This paper targets these studies through the first systematic literature review to construct a synthesised and critical overview of how urban transportation sustainability is in fact assessed. The sample consists of 99 peer-reviewed articles retrieved via three scientific search engines. The results reveal a Europe-centric and single-case focus, a strong interest to introduce new indicator systems with limited references to previous work, and a lack of qualitative approaches and stakeholder diversity regarding the assessment methods. Nearly 2400 indicators are identified in the articles with significant variation in their use. Furthermore, the comprehensive accounting for sustainability is often overlooked, and the inconclusive assessment results are often noted by the authors of the sample articles themselves. Our findings signal that the research field is highly fragmented and to some extent fails to accumulate knowledge generated by past studies and to comprehensively operationalise the concept of sustainability. The identified shortcomings of the assessments and their implications for transportation policy-making and planning are highlighted, and based on our results recommendations to develop more reliable, comparable, and inclusive sustainability assessments for the urban transportation sector are made.

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Incorporating Bicycles into Urban Mobility: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Promoting Bicycling in Car-Oriented Cities: Lessons from Washington, DC and Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

Promoting Bicycling in Car-Oriented Cities: Lessons from Washington, DC and Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

Concurrencia en torno a la planificación estratégica urbana. Análisis, aprendizajes y sinergias de la estrategia Zaragoza +20

Urban transportation sustainability assessments: a systematic review of literature

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